Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in Photoshop CC – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6 or above.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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Step 1

Create a new document sized 1400px * 770px with black background. We will start by preparing a nice background for our text.

Load the “Metal Texture 1” image into Photoshop, copy & paste the entire image to our canvas. Use the free transform tool to adjust the size of the texture to fit the size of our document:

Reduce the layer opacity for this metal texture layer to around 24%:

Apply the following image adjustments to this metal texture layer:

Black & White

Levels

And here is the effect so far:

Use the fractal brushes you downloaded, paint some fractal patterns over the texture. The fractal painting should only be barely visible – so please make sure you set your brush opacity to around 20%:

Step 2

Use the font we downloaded and type some characters onto our canvas:

Apply the following layer blend options to the text layer to give it a bit of depth:

Bevel and Emboss

Drop Shadow

and here is the effect so far:

Step 3

We will be applying the metal texture to our text in this step. Load “Metal Texture 2” image into Photoshop. Make a selection as shown below:

Copy and paste the selection to our canvas, cover the text as shown below:

Right-click on this new metal texture layer and select “Create Clipping Mask”:

And you will see the following effect over the text:

To darken the metal texture over the text, I duplicated the metal texture layer twice and set both duplicated layer as clipping masks. Then I changed the layer blend mode for these 2x new layers to “Color Burn” and “Multiply” respectively:

And this is the result you after making the above adjustments:

Step 4

We will be adding fiery effect onto the text in this step. Load the fire texture into Photoshop and make a selection as shown below, using the Lasso Tool with “Feather:40px” setting:

Copy and paste the selection to our document, change its layer blend mode to “screen”, place it over the texture as shown below:

Repeat the above process, add more fire elements around the canvas:

Step 5

We’re almost done! To touch-up the final result, I added some subtle grunge brush painting below the text:

I further added some highlights for the text with the fractal brushes:

Also slightly adjusted the colour balance of the image, and this is my final result: (click to enlarge)

That’s it for this tutorial! Leave me a comment below if you have any questions. Enjoy it? Help me share it around by using the share buttons at the top of the tutorial!

My name is James and I have been using Photoshop since version 5.0 (long time ago!). PSD Vault is my spare time hobby and I write majority of the Photoshop tutorials and articles here. I hope you enjoy my blog, and feel free to leave a comment or contact me if you have any questions.